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ミシガンでの共和党予備選はロムニー氏の勝利となりました。今度は3月のSuper Tuesdayへとなだれ込みます。Oxford大のTimothy Stanley氏のcritiqueはいつ読んでも面白いものです。赤でハイライトした部分をSugiuchiくん、よろしくお願いします。（GP）

(CNN) -- Pity poor Rick Santorum. Tuesday's Michigan primary finally proved that he is the stronger candidate to take on Obama. Yet he still lost to the lesser Republican.

That's the kind of paradox that you only find in politics -- a business that makes the Oscars look sophisticated and self-aware.

The votes that Romney and Santorum drew matched their public personas. In the last two weeks, Mitt has been branded as a "Massachusetts moderate" -- who thinks it's perfectly normal for a patriotic woman to own "a couple of Cadillacs." In contrast Santorum presents as a "working class" conservative who "almost threw up" at the thought of separating church and state and who implies that college is for snobs. Together, they are the rational brain and the rumbling gut of the Republican Party.

CNN's exit polls suggest that Michigan voters pretty much broke according to how they relate to those clichés. Romney won self-identified Republicans, 47-37 percent. He dominated among people earning more than $100,000 per year and his voters were ideological middle-of-the-roaders: people who think abortion should remain legal in some circumstances, "moderate" supporters of the Tea Party, the "somewhat conservative" in outlook, yada yada, yawn, yawn.

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/02/29/opinion/stanley-michigan-primary/index.html?hpt=hp_c2